msftgreed

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by msftgreed 27d ago
The human tradition is storytelling. The idea that storytelling was something a company could own and other's weren't allowed to tell is very, very new in our history. People write without any profit motive today . It's we
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by msftgreed 27d ago
As someone who was around during Reagan, you are correct. The turn happened in the 80s, and then rapidly accelerated in the 90s and 2000s, then rapidly accelerated again in the past 10 years. I think a lot of folks are stuck on the idea t
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by msftgreed 27d ago
You say this like it's related to the parent quote. We could absolutely compensate people and not charge for information. It's not that hard to imagine that we could feed, house, care for, and provide a small stipend to author
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by msftgreed 1mo ago
50 tons per acre, over 35 years (to grow the trees to a harvestable age) with an expectation that you can capture ~25-40% of that in long term storage via pyrolizing it. The US alone has ~1 billion acres of forest land and could produce a l
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
Forests do net sequester carbon. But if you want to really sock away the carbon you harvest the trees and pyrolize it. It will give you energy (heat) you can use and elemental carbon (biochar). You could bury that a few feet under or innocu
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
So a state (or municipality or anyone capable of making laws) has the ability to say, "You don't meet our local laws, take down your URL" now? This is going to be a real problem when states start nuking whole parts of the int
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
Well, really, pick your poison I suppose. We have wide belts of forests in the north that are warming and are potentially at risk for massive fires, which would make the problem significantly worse. So, before the taiga burns. Or, before sp
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
Maybe we should be doing something dramatic about this global warming thing before it's too late, yeah?
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
> CD sales surged 16% to 16.3 million units, soundly outpacing vinyl’s comparatively modest 2.4% growth. Ok, but the lack of a unit on vinyl makes it very hard to have an apples to apples comparison here. If cds are selling 1000 units an
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
You can name the brand... Häagen‑Dazs? Graeters? In any case, why would you melt and drain it? That makes zero sense. You don't have friends who would take it? Or a food bank? Or a local Food Not Bombs? It's totally fine to not li
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
I work in accessibility, yes.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
And yet, if someone cannot meaningfully participate in society without their glasses, then yes, they have a disability. Polio paralysis and vision loss are both examples of disability. They do have differences in all those things you mentio
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
15% is from the 2011 WHO report on disability: https://www.who.int/teams/noncommunicable-diseases/sensory-f... The more recent WHO's Global report on health equity suggests 16%, as populations age: https:&#x
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
I work in big tech in accessibility. I guarantee you that you are incorrect.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
You've got it. Who makes the decisions? Primarily the folks with the most property.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
And they decide that you'll pay a percentage of what they pay each other. Which you also have no say in.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
This isn't sustainable. You really want every person who is dealing with this bureaucracy to manage negotiating between their insurance and their EMS? After they've just had a significant accident/health issue? That seems nee
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
Well, here it is often ass AND expensive. I'd take ass and free over ass and expensive.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
You know we can have volunteer supported services be very effective, right? I volunteer to give blood. No one is paying me, and yet, someone's life is saved by that. Some folks believe (in fact, this is the thesis statement of much of
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
There's still a few brands, you'll just end up paying through the nose for them.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
You don't... heat it? Egg yolks change their role in ice cream when heated, increasing their emulsifying power and creating a richer ice cream.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
I think that's extremely ungenerous and misses the point of the article. The article is specific in the mechanisms by which the industry has changed formulae -- adding air, gums, and stabilizers. It also includes information about wh
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
And furthermore, ~15% of us are permanently disabled. So the percentages for temporary or situational disability rise even higher than that.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
Do you use curb cuts? Closed captions? Difficulty sliders in games? An electric toothbrush? Audible crosswalk signals? All of those have significant roots in accessibility for people with disabilities. I guarantee you that the people who in
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
Videogames are generally lagging WAY behind the rest of software. I've worked professionally in accessibility and in AAA game studios. There's a lot of movement in games over the past 5-10 years, so there's a lot more visibil
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
This is a great example of the curb cut effect -- a system designed for accessibility needs turns out to be useful in other contexts. Curb cuts were designed for people with disabilities, particularly veterans, and over time have become mor
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
It made a claim, brah. If it's going to claim flowing text, then it shows that? Nah, that ain't it. It can aspire to be whatever it wants to be, don't make claims you can't back up.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
Sure, I love a Forza Horizons (I'm not much for mainline Forza), but those games aren't really experiencing the same scope creep as the the rest of the industry. Call of Duty is, but it's also noteworthy that sales of CoD are
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
This is absolutely a chat UI.
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by msftgreed 2mo ago
I expected, from the description, it to look like text was being written by hand -- with the letterforms being stroked at roughly human pen speeds. Not just a fancy font over a text box being entered character by character. The description

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